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athesyn

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uk.finance.yahoo.com 2y ago

Musk's 'unfathomable' $56B Tesla pay package overruled by US judge

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Ask HN: What Happened to Filecoin?

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www.braintapper.com 5y ago

It's 2020 and I'm Still Using Coffeescript

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decrypt.co 5y ago

Chinese miners are threatening to fork Filecoin

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news.ycombinator.com 5y ago

Ask HN: Should I start a business in 2020?

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inessential.com 6y ago

The iOS App Store Brings Users Only Because It’s the Only Choice

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news.ycombinator.com 8y ago

Ask HN: How to not be intimidated by people with higher credentials?

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news.ycombinator.com 8y ago

Ask HN: Why are so many coding challenges about math?

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news.ycombinator.com 8y ago

Ask HN: What's the best mobile phone for visually impaired people?

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news.ycombinator.com 11y ago

Ask HN: Material for getting started in media-player development?

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news.ycombinator.com 11y ago

How to find clients and agencies if you're a nobody in the iOS community?

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www.itwriting.com 12y ago

Resilience is not backup: how Codespaces.com lost its data and its business

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revisited.co 12y ago

How Singletons Work

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moshez.wordpress.com 12y ago

Essential skills for the 21st century

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www.minimallyminimal.com 12y ago

My lunch with Dieter Rams

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news.ycombinator.com 12y ago

Ask HN: Where to find work building iOS apps?

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peterscott.github.com 13y ago

Regular expressions will stab you in the back

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words.steveklabnik.com 13y ago

_why is a role, not a person

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www.maths.manchester.ac.uk 13y ago

An Introduction to Mathematical Reasoning

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liban.revisited.co 13y ago

Dear Startups

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www.thenewatlantis.com 13y ago

The Scientist and the Poet

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moshez.wordpress.com 13y ago

Crash course in mathematical notation for programmers

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planetearth.nerc.ac.uk 13y ago

Building blocks of life came from deep Earth

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lesswrong.com 14y ago

Are functional languages the future of programming?

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news.ycombinator.com 14y ago

Ask HN: Advice about diving into web analytics?

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www.thinq.co.uk 15y ago

$3m prize offer for algorithm to predict illness

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The Iran "retaliatory" attack was clearly not a serious effort, they mostly used old cheap rockets and drones. It was more to save face and they got a lot of information on Israel's defence systems out of it. And not to mention it cost the Israelis over a 1 billion dollars to thwart while Iran spend a few million.

Water 3 years ago

I'm confused by the labelling, normally "super" implies speed but here the interaction gets slower while the pixels increase. Maybe Max is a better descriptor?

Anyone who has seen the interview knows Mehdi wiped the floor with Taibbi and pointed out humiliating mistakes in his reporting -- even Taibbi accepted that.

As for the plagiarism, the article in question is from over 20 years ago, hardly a slam dunk nor is it a representative of his journalistic career. The only reason Fang wrote that is because Mehdi accused him of Islamophobia, it's just petty and desperate nonsense.

Have you tried drying your tears with bank notes? jk. I don't know quit then? Unless you're contractually obligated to stay I'm not sure there's anything you can do aside from either quitting or working towards changing your circumstances assuming you have the influence.

I think ageism is too overstated in tech industry. If graduates with zero experience can get work, then it doesn't make sense that senior software engineers should struggle in the job market.

Personally, I see the opposite with many job posts asking for minimum X years of experience. If a programmer with many years of expertise is jobless it says more about their personality and their ability to fit culturally speaking. Perhaps they're just applying for the wrong jobs, or use the wrong rhetoric etc.

Too many programmers are concerned with their skill level and less with their ability to communicate their potential. That's what it comes down to when everything is taken into consideration.

The same applies for every niche skill that takes years to develop.

so you just defeated your own argument, instead of hyper-focusing on writing parser why not just say "years of experience" if that is what really matters?

no wonder you got shit on.

I don't understand, are you saying that writing a language parser is a litmus test that that only real programmers can pass?

What makes it so special compared to other tasks of similar difficulty?

I'm definitely not a slacker when it comes to jobs and I know I have real-world applicable skills. I've always pulled my weight and received great feedback, I agree with everything you said. I got hung up on the credentials because they're so important to everybody else, but actually it's only half (or less) the story.

Thanks for your perspective, you've given me a lot to think about.